Specialisation: capital hedging, international financial deals, organisation of international corporate collaboration. Has an LLM Cambridge University degree, Strategic Negotiations Yale School of Management certificate

Since 2014, Mr. Arkhipov has been fully focusing on Blockchain R&D as a CTO of QIWI Blockchain Technologies. In 2017 Alexey was appointed as a head of Distributed Ledger Technology unit in FinTech Association, which unites leading Russian banks and financial companies. At present, he leads the technical development of the first Russian DLT platform Masterchain.